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Would this cause my problem and can it be fixed?

Thanks,
Eric

"Barry Margolin" <barmar@genuity.net> wrote in message
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> In article <cKA35.445$ZW5.35549@news.uswest.net>,
> TEC <tecsupport@uswest.net> wrote:
> >This is what I am seeing on the server syslog.  Every half hour or so, I
get
> >two messages:
> >
> >smap[21550]: 205.240.25.2 host address lookup failed
> >smap[21550]: connect host=unknown/205.240.25.2
> >
> >This is the Pond's (pond.net) IP address.  Apparently SMAP is trying to
find
> >out the domain name associated with the IP address, so it can determine
if
> >they are one of the sites that we don't want spamming us.  This
> >inverse DNS lookup is failing.  I can test this inverse lookup with
> >the nslookup program, which also fails for this address.  All other
> >addresses I try are successful. Any idea what might be causing this?
>
> Because the ixa.net servers that this reverse domain is delegated to
aren't
> responding to DNS queries (they respond to pings, though).
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
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